okay, quick blog before getting back into the slew of work. I went to Chattnooga this weekend, for a wedding and for seeing friends and watching movies and for going to Waffle House very late at night. I stopped in Atlanta on the way to see The Mountain Goats play at The Earl. It was very different from the last time I saw them. Let me just say that if you are going to a Mountain Goats concert you'd better be a pretty big fan. Some bands you can just go and see and feel like you're part of things, The Decemberists, but at The Mountain Goats concert you'd better at least know all the words to No Children. Plus Darnielle is crazy. I'd forgotten that. He plays his songs dancing and grinning like an idiot, even though all of them are horribly depressing which of course is why we love them. The crowd was great, shhh-ing anyone who made a noise during the songs that were quiet, and singing as loud as they could on the songs that weren't.
The weekend was a good calm-before-the-storm time. Lots of sleeping in and watching stuff and then it was great to see Tami and Keri and everyone else at the wedding. And such good food, oh man, possibly the best wedding cake I have ever had. After the wedding Earl, Lynnette, and I went back to Natalie and Chantel and we all crawled in bed and watched The Last Seduction. Which is also crazy. Yesterday Natalie and I had a good time being out, going to McKay, etc, joining Bradon and Catie on their date at Rembrants.
And now I have a paper to write, finally got my topic for Old English. Thankfully, it just needs to be a draft since there will be plenty of time to work on it later if it's good enough. I'm writing on compounds in which the first element means the same thing, or almost the same thing, as the second element. We have these in Modern English, words like "pathway" and "roadway", except in Old English they're more fun, things like death-death and horror-horror (and man-man, I like that one). It will involve lots of reading Beowulf. I am okay with the epics, though, so that's fine. It will also involve lots of tea, but hopefully not heavy drugs.
Posted by linnea at November 6, 2006 8:21 AM